Today Kelly Howlett is prominent as Mayor for the Town of Port Hedland. But she was once an impressionable 13 year old in Western Victoria, listening to Midnight Oil and writing a petition to save brolga nests near her parents' property....

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'Don't feed the birds!' Australians have those four words drilled into them from a young age. But urban ecologist Darryl Jones says more than half the country feeds birds anyway, so this 'no tolerance' approach is doing more harm than good. Professor Jones argues there is a way to feed wild birds ...

On the Indonesian island of Flores, tourists on holidays are being encouraged to help clean up the overwhelming amount of rubbish. The country has only recently begun to take waste seriously and a local activist has won over many young people on the island who recognise if their elders don't act ...

Overnight at the UN General Assembly, the Prime Minister Scott Morrison delivered a robust defence of his Government's commitment to reducing carbon emissions. The PM said internal and international critics of Australia's record are willingly overlooking our achievements. That's been met ...

The former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the world's slow progress on climate change is "pretty grim," and that Greta Thunberg's address at the UN captures the rage of a generation.
Guest:
Kevin Rudd, Former Australian Prime Minister...

The World Meteorological Organisation has released a landmark report ahead of the UN Climate Summit in New York. It says climate change is s hitting us "harder and sooner" than predicted. Guest: Professor Mark Howden, director of ANU Climate Change Institute and vice-chair of UN ...